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IC GrossBeat Bank 4 – Fresh sonic chaos.

IC Gross Beat Bank 4 in action.

Gross Beat: itsclipping is at it again, with a fresh batch of chaos for Image-Line’s brilliant Gross Beat Time and Volume manipulation plugin. 70 new envelopes are provided as usual. 72 in total, both the time and volume sections have one default (blank) envelope and 35 other new envelopes for your twisted sound mangling pleasure.

An interesting and wonderful statement. But let’s think about it a little further. What is it that makes any piece of music good? Music is often called a universal language. So, is there any universal things that could be said make musical creations good? Is there any single connecting themes or ideas that all good music has, or even all things that can be considered music?

By contrast, or from another perspective, what makes music bad?

Golden Record Cover, on Voyager Spacecraft.

In 1977 Two spacecraft began a truly epic voyage into the galactic wilderness on scientific expeditions. The Voyager Golden Records are gramophone records which were included aboard both of the Voyager spacecraft.

‘They contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them.’

So if by chance an alien civilization does happen to intercept/obtain the golden record on either of the Voyager spacecrafts, (and are sufficiently advanced enough technologically to realize what it is and how to play it) that’s the first music from Earth which they’ll hear.

Do you agree with that as a good selection? What would you have wanted put on that disc?

What kinds of music make you think? And what kinds make you feel? If you’d like to, you can share your thoughts on these things in the comments below. (please do!)

“To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must forget them.” ~ Nadia Boulanger

As you can see from some of the lengths (and hear in the lower quality streamed mp3 in the player), there is 50 diverse, high quality reverbs and impulses here ready for all your musical needs. Be that ambient music, acoustic pop, rock or folk, EDM, film music, foley and post production… There is enough quality verbs here to give a wide enough range of sounds and sound design potential for you to really enjoy producing with them and get wide use in your professional production works.